Best ways to prepare for Oktoberfest

There is knowledge from all over the planet on TT, so let's hear it. Last year, I went to the fest as a rookie and paid for it dearly the next day. 12 liters of beer in an 8 hour period and I was a disaster the next day. I need to be able to last 3 days this year. Yes, it's easy to say 'moderation' but if you've been in a tent at the fest, you know this can be tough.

I want to hear from the experts and people who have experience. Any secrets a newbie should know? Any inside advice? I'll have my little bro with me and we'll just be getting back from Venice in time for opening weekend. He's never been to Europe before and I just pray he doesn't become more annoying than the Italians.

Right now I'm drinking an Augustiner Oktoberfest bier and must say it's pretty damn tasty. I have 8 more. I need to get the liver and kidneys prepared!

Thanks!

Drink, drink a fucking lot, then drink some more, learn to eat food swimming in fat put on a few kilos you´ll sweat it off. Then drink more, learn to hold at least 5L in your bladder, take condoms, get used to pulling beautiful womén who when they have had a penile injection and 5 hours sleep turn into big fat munters. Trust me. I know these things young Jedi!

The end bit also works the other way around for women too. Adonis at night, fat blerk at dawn.

LOL at both of you! For shame, for shame...

sounds like some drunken nights in college

So, basically, just keep drinking? Hair of the dog and all that? Feel like shit? Drink! Drink until you feel good, eh? I may need an IV or two by the third day. Shit, I'm old enough (33) that I'm dreading this. No doubt it will be a great time though. That train ride home, which is only 3 hours, is going to HURT! Is what pisses me off is that my brother, only 3.5 years younger, has a liver of iron.

Say La Vee

Pace yourself, have a drink of water in between. A BIG drink of water. And yes, eat fried pork or a Steckerlfisch if you can stomach it. Next day, drink more water. LOTS of water. I always find that drinking a cup of water with a disolved fizzy magnesium tablet every day for a week beforehand and all through the Wiesn itself prevents too much physical pain (aching limbs, muscle cramps).

Have a Radler every once in a while instead of an Oktoberfestbier.

12L? I'd believe that if I saw it. 3 gallons is a lot of beer. Also consider the fullness of your Maß (or rather, the lack thereof, in the tents).

I was with a few friends who drank 12 maß over 10 hours.. can be done.. I think my record is 7..

It wasn't that tough and it happened with ease. I hated it the next day.

well most tents don't serve Radler!

I'm impressed, i'm something of an O'Fest regular and i don't think i have ever done 12 mass , are you sure of that?

I suspect he just lost count after 6!

Here is a Hangover "Cure" I found but have not yet tried. I will hopefully try it at the Milwaukee Oktoberfest this weekend. I assume the best time to take it is right before you hit the pillow so it is working while you sleep.

While the ingredients in this kit are based on hard science and not personal mythology, it must be said that there really is no cure for a hangover in the same sense that penicillin is a cure for an infection. There are several things, however, that you can put into your body to ease the pain and assist rapid recovery, including a little-known substance called cysteine. Cysteine directly counteracts the poisonous effects of acetaldehyde. The following arsenal-in-a-milkshake is so loaded with the anti-toxic munitions your body needs, that after it makes short work of your hangover, it might just clear out your nasal passages, shrink your hemorrhoids, and leap out of your body and write your History term paper. Behold the official Almighty Hangover Emergency Cure:

1. Take 2 aspirins

2. Take 200mg cysteine (available at specialty food stores)

3. Take 600mg vitamin C

4. Take 1 tablet vitamin B-complex

5. Mix the following ingredients together in a blender:
• 1 banana
• 1 small can V-8 tomato juice
• 6 large strawberries
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1 cup orange juice
• 1-2 cups milk (or soy milk), to desired consistency
• ¼ tsp. salt
• dash of nutmeg

6. Drink it all up.

If necessary, follow up with a dose of Maalox, lots of Gatorade, and bouillon soup for dinner. These ingredients will rehydrate your body, replace essential vitamins and minerals and help rid your body of some of the toxic byproducts of metabolized alcohol.

This will only work if throwing up removes all traces of alcohol from your body, because that's sure as hell is what's going to happen if you drink this concoction after 5+ maß. It's got bloody v8 in it, that stuff alone is one of the worst drinks on the planet, tastes like pond water and just as good for you!

its ok to drink a lot, the seecret is always go to the toilet.( u know what i mean)pipi machen. and be sure ur full and u´ve eaten a lot before drinking .

tactical chunder after 3 mass.